Ahimsa Kids: Set Teachers

Tag: set tutoring

  • Virtual / Remote Set Tutoring / Teaching Options

    A bit of Zoom Storytelling fun!

    Ahimsa Kids has been providing teachers to production sets for 15 years now and we are excited to forge forward into this school year with our additional offerings of virtual set tutoring, in response to UBCP’s recommendation of remote set teaching, during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

    Our teachers have already been very active in the virtual space, long before in-person teaching came to a halt. Over the last few months we have even created our own online learning platform, the StoryToGo Classroom, and have been running camps and small group interactive courses there, including BCIT’s first online summer camps!  We will be able to tailor online learning hubs for remote instruction for any productions that need that this school year.

    A BCIT Summer Camp on the StoryToGo Classroom site.

    Our team has designed and taught online courses through BCIT for 8-years now, in addition to delivering virtual instruction to all ages, from family yoga classes to piano lessons, story coding camps, and acting classes to corporate mindfulness sessions. We understand the importance of building connection and finding efficient, yet creative and enjoyable ways to get important academic concepts across. 

    Ella showing us how she coded her story.

    Erica Hargreave, the founder of Ahimsa Kids, is currently working on her Master of Educational Technology and is passing on and incorporating all of the latest methods of utilizing digital technology to teach remotely to our certified teachers. We are ready and prepared to adapt to the needs of your production! 

    Sam walking us through an animated story that he created.

    Learn more about us on the main Ahimsa Kids site, and please reach out with any questions: info[at]ahimsakids.com/ / 604-785-3602.

  • Production Services

    Ahimsa Kids is a full service set tutoring agency in BC that caters to the needs of production and child actors in British Columbia. We offer our services for:

    • set tutoring
    • child coordinating

    Filming in Golden Ears Provincial Park: Beauty is one of the blessings of being a set teaching agency in Vancouver!
    Filming in Golden Ears Provincial Park: Beauty is one of the blessings of being a set teaching agency in Vancouver!

    Our Service to Production
    We provide production with:

    • Certified teachers whom have undergone criminal record checks.
    • Free consultation prior to and during production with regards to meeting health, welfare and schooling requirements for minors and school aged youth.
    • Communication with the parents and school with regards to the child’s schooling.
    • Organized paperwork for production on schooling.
    • Substitute teachers in the event of an illness.
    • School supplies.

    Our Teachers
    We provide production with a network of teachers who:

    • Are certified in BC, Alberta, Ontario and the United States, including a California Studio Teacher.
    • Have undergone criminal record checks.
    • Have a full complement of specialties including French, French Immersion, Japanese, Science, Math, Business, Language Arts, Social Studies, Drama, Fine Arts, PE, and the middle and primary years.
    • Are trained with production and set knowledge.

    Commonly Asked Questions:

  • PB and LA: A Lesson From A Studio Teacher in Vancouver

    We have some cool teachers working with us!  Was reminded of that by this Language Arts set teaching activity that Lori Yearwood, one of our Studio Teachers in Vancouver, recently did with Charlie Tahan on the set of Charlie St Cloud.

    Lori wanted to stress the importance of including details in his writing. To do this, she had him write out how to make a peanut butter sandwich. She then followed his instructions to the T.  So if he wrote, ‘put jam on the bread’, she would sit the whole jar on top of the bread because he did not specify to use a knife.

    Charlie is a funny kid, so at the end of his instructions he wrote that ‘it is always important to add your own flare’. Being two fun and silly soles, this then sparked Lori and Charlie to turn the lesson into a big food art competition.  Their creations:

    Set Teaching Activity: PB and LA
    The final entries in the mini home economics/language arts set teaching activity delivered competition style. Which plate would you vote for?

    Wish I’d been there to see this!  Would have been a hoot! This is just one example of how our set teachers make learning an enjoyable experience for students who are often away from home as they work on a production.

  • Vancouver’s Got A New California Studio Teacher!

    A little known fact about our company is that Ahimsa Media has a boutique set teaching division, Ahimsa Kids, geared to providing engaging and inspired teachers to teach child actors on set in BC.  Well, Ahimsa Kids had some very exciting news yesterday, they got their first ever California Studio Teacher for teaching the young actors from LA who come to BC to work on film or TV productions!!!!

    An enormous congratulations to Lori Yearwood on obtaining her California Studio Teaching License!!!  We are so, so proud of you and appreciative of the hard work you put into obtaining the certification!   Well done you gorgeous girl!

    trips up the coast
    Lori has had to make a few trips up the coast to obtain her license, all the while planning future lessons for child actors on set in BC!